Oh wait, they don’t use the term illegal aliens. Instead it’s the laughably titled Undocumented Americans.

Memo to Time: If they’re undocumented, they’re not Americans.

Upside, no Sandra Fluke.

On Tuesday morning, TIME magazine’s short list of eight potential choices for its iconic Person of the Year cover was revealed live on TODAY. The list includes Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!; Mohammed Morsi, president of Egypt; Undocumented Americans; Bill and Hillary Clinton; President Barack Obama; Malala Yousafzai, the student activist from Pakistan who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban; Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple; and the Higgs Boson and Italian physicist Fabiola Giannati.

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them."- Galileo Galilei

In regards to Time's "Person of the Year" (formerly "Man of the Year"), it should be noted that the title "is bestowed by the editors on the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill."

Thus, in 1938, Time's Man of the Year was:

Zitathttp://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760539,00.html

Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938

Between 1938 and 1942, the Man of the Year score was 3 "Bad Guys" vs. 2 "Good Guys" or 4 "Bad Guys" vs. 1 "Good Guy" depending on how far you want to take domestic political partisanship. ;-)